District court Zabern
The district court of Zabern was from 1871 to 1918 one of six German district courts in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine with its seat in Zabern .
history
In the German Empire
After Alsace-Lorraine was ceded to the German Reich in the Peace of Frankfurt in 1871, the court structure was re-regulated with the law on the amendment of the court constitution of July 14, 1871 and the implementing provisions for this from the same day. The existing arrondissement courts were repealed and regional courts established as courts of second instance. The Zabern Regional Court was subordinate to the Colmar Higher Appeal Court and, since 1879, to the Colmar Higher Regional Court .
The regional court district comprised the district of the Arrondissementgericht Saarburg, the district of the Arrondissementgericht Zabern with the exception of the cantons Hochfelden and Saar-Union , from the Arrondissementgericht Strasbourg the cantons Molsheim and Wasselnheim and from the Arrondissementgericht Schlettstadt the cantons Oberehnheim-Rosheim and Schirmeck-Sâles . At first 10 peace courts were subordinate to the regional court.
The jury court established at the Strasbourg Regional Court was also responsible for jury cases in the Zabern Regional Court district.
On October 1, 1879, the changes to the Courts Constitution Act came into force. The entrance courts, which had been called the Friedensgericht in France , were now uniformly incorporated into local courts in the empire .
The following peace, now district courts were subordinate to the regional court:
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In 1880 the court had a president, two directors and seven judges and was responsible for about 206,000 residents.
With the reannexion of Alsace-Lorraine by France after the First World War in 1918, the French judicial organization was reintroduced.
German occupation 1940–1944
After the conquest of Alsace and Lorraine in the summer of 1940, a German civil administration was set up under CdZ Robert Wagner , with the structure of the courts essentially based on the structures from 1918. The previous cantonal courts were converted into local courts , the previous first instance courts into regional courts . However, the Lorraine parts of the judicial district (district court districts Finstingen, Lörchingen, Pfalzburg and Saarburg) and the district of the district court Schirmeck were not reassigned to the district court of Zabern, but the district court districts of Saar-Union (as "Saarbuckenheim") and Drulingen were added. The district court of Zabern was subordinated to the higher regional court of Kolmar . From November 1, 1940, Alsace and Lorraine were also subject to the German Courts Constitution Act and the Code of Civil Procedure .
The areas that were subordinate to a CdZ were treated as imperial territory , but not annexed and therefore did not belong to the empire. At the end of 1944, the German occupation collapsed with the advance of the Allies.
The courthouse
The district court was housed in the building of the former episcopal justice office (today: Rue du Tribunal). The building was built in 1738 by Cardinal Armand-Gaston de Rohan-Soubise . Its foundation walls stand on the eastern bulwark of the city's old Roman curtain wall. A tower of this city wall was integrated into the building. In the ancien regime, the criminal court and the audit office were housed here. After the French Revolution , the building served as the seat of the Tribunal de Grande Instance. After the annexation by the German Reich, it was the seat of the regional court. Today the Tribunal de Grande Instance has its seat here again. In 1899, the Zabern District Court building was built on the left, which is now the seat of the Tribunal d 'Instance. The building is listed in the Base Mérimée as a listed building .
literature
- Carl Pfaffenroth: Yearbook of the German Court Constitution, 1880, p. 418, online
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Law on the amendment of the court constitution of July 14, 1871, Official Gazette for Alsace-Lorraine No. 5, 1871, pp. 165 ff., Online
- ↑ Ordinance on the implementation of the law, regarding the amendment of the court constitution of July 14, 1871, Law Gazette for Alsace-Lorraine No. 5, 1871, p. 169 ff.
- ↑ 1880
- ^ The District Court of Rosheim was only established by ordinance of April 15, 1884 for the district of the canton of Rosheim. Law Gazette for Alsace-Lorraine 1884, No. 6, p. 82
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. olg_colmar.html # lgzabern. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Ordinance on the incorporation of the district court districts of Drulingen and Saarbuckenheim into the district court district of Zabern of December 18, 1940 ( Ordinance sheet of the head of civil administration in Alsace No. 26, p. 492)
- ↑ Heinz Boberach, Rolf Thommes, Hermann Weiß, Werner Röder, Christoph Weisz (eds.): Offices, abbreviations, actions of the Nazi state. Handbook for the use of sources from the National Socialist era. Official titles, ranks and administrative divisions, abbreviations and non-military code names De Gruyter, 1997, p. 175. ISBN 978-3-598-11271-3 .
- ↑ Entry IA00055446 in Base Mérimée
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '26.6 " N , 7 ° 21' 54.6" E